University of Kent Knowledge Orders Scholarship 2026

The Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme `Knowledge Orders before Modernity’ (KOM) is an innovative collaboration between King’s College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent. The programme explores the capacity of the handwritten word comparatively, after as well as before the advent of the printing press, outside and well as within western cultures. It seeks to challenge a conventional periodization which associates complex knowledge, complex archival mechanisms, and mundane recording with the arrival of print. The programme is entering is final year of recruitment, and expects to appoint up to five scholars. All successful candidates will participate in a shared programme of visits, events, and discussions. Doctoral scholars will be registered at the University of their first supervisor, either at King’s College London or the University of Kent.

The programme has four themes:

A Technologies of knowledge (materiality, writing systems, layout, accounts, numerals, diagrams, ciphers).

B Embodied knowledge (scribal careers, training, personal mobility, professionalization, language, gatekeepers).

C Systems of knowledge (archiving processes, witness, memory, reading practices, recall, authenticity, compilation).

D Chronologies of knowledge (innovation, continuity, engagement with the past, responses to the present, reuse, forgery).

• Table of Content
• About University Of Kent
• University of Kent PhD Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of University of Kent PhD Scholarship
• Requirements for University of Kent PhD Scholarship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

University of Kent PhD Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of University of Kent PhD Scholarship

• For UK Doctoral Scholarships Home (UK) tuition fees, an annual maintenance allowance at UKRI base levels, and up to £10,000 to support research and training needs, to be claimed as expenses.
• For International Doctoral Scholarships Tuition fees and an annual maintenance allowance (both at UKRI base levels), and up to £10,000 to support research and training needs, to be claimed as expenses.

Requirements for University of Kent PhD Scholarship Qualification

Applicants should have at a minimum a good first degree (at least 2.1, or international equivalent) in History, Literatures, Classics, Theology, Art History, or a closely related subject, and have obtained, or are currently working towards a Master's degree at Merit level, or international equivalent, in these or a related discipline.

If English is not your first language you will need to meet the English language requirements and provide proof of proficiency. Click here for more information.

• Applicants would be expected to start their studies in September 2026.
• Recipients are expected to commit to engagement beyond their doctoral studies through the vitality of the Knowledge Orders programme.

This award is open to applicants whose fee status is classed as Home (UK) and International. Click here for further information about fee status.

Please note that these studentships are only open to applicants who will start their study in September 2026, not those who have already started.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more information, kindly visit University of Kent scholarship webpage.